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Rubio unveils a massive overhaul of State Department

State Department to cut thousands of staff, shutter more than 100 foreign offices in drastic overhaul

A 15% cut to domestic staff will result in more than 2,000 employees losing their jobs — including around 700 at the department’s Foggy Bottom headquarters

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US State Department unveils massive overhaul of agency with reduction of staff and bureaus

Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a massive overhaul of the State Department on Tuesday, with plans to reduce staff in the U.S. by 15% while closing and consolidating more than 100 bureaus worldwide as part of the Trump administration’s “America First” mandate.

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Rubio Unveils State Department Overhaul to Promote Trump’s ‘America First’ Policies

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a major plan to reorganize the State Department to shrink what he called a bloated bureaucracy and bring it in line with President Trump’s “American First” priorities.

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Inside the Fight Over Trump’s Foreign Policy

Sign up for it here.If there’s one thing people thought they knew about Donald Trump’s second term, it was that he would take ...

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Food for Peace Showed How Foreign Aid Can Benefit Both the U.S. and the World

Food for Peace exemplifies the value of internationalism and humanitarian endeavors in American foreign policy.

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US Foreign Policy Confronts Reality in Ukraine and Iran

Ambitious efforts to end and prevent wars are leading up to a Wile E. Coyote moment — with nowhere to go but down.

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On Foreign Policy, Party Divisions Become a Chasm, WSJ Poll Finds

The differences follow years of Republicans taking an increasingly isolationist view of America’s role in the world and Democrats supporting international alliances.

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The U.S. has Greenland (and foreign policy) exactly upside down

Geopolitically and strategically, Greenland is as important as everyone including President Donald Trump thinks.

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I was furloughed from my global public health job due to the USAID freeze. Foreign aid makes the US safer and stronger.

American soft power is threatened as USAID pauses programs, says Kirsten Weeks, a global public health leader with over 25 ...

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Trump’s ‘lone ranger’: How Steve Witkoff became the de facto point man on America’s foreign policy challenges

Last month a private jet belonging to Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff winged its way from Abu Dhabi to Doha to Moscow and ...

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The Trump administration says Europe is taking advantage of the US. That’s not exactly true

And then came US President Donald Trump ... Majda Ruge, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign ...

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The Development of American Policy

SURVEY OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS: 1928. EDITED BY CHARLES P. HOWLAND. New Haven: Yale University Press. Published for the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. 1928. 610 pp. BY its ...

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Our Foreign Students Are Terrified, and They’re Right to Be

International students are a vital and enriching presence on any campus. They are drawn to the United States for our academic ...

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Trump’s cult of ignorance undermines policy at home and abroad

His fearful team refuses to critique his ill-informed tariff wars, attacks on universities, or ego-driven foreign policy.

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